shifting by U.S. multinational enterprises affects GDP and, thus, productivity measurement. Profit shifting increased in the …Beginning in 2004, official statistics display a slowdown in U.S. productivity growth. We show how offshore profit … mid- 1990s, resulting in lower measured productivity growth. We construct value added adjusted for profit shifting. The …

Emerging countries are increasingly concerned with improving their competitiveness and productivity. This Element … robust empirical results in total factor productivity (TFP), we mean estimating investment climate (IC) elasticities, or semi …-country firm´s level productivity comparisons, avoiding the usual problem of comparing 'apples with oranges' that would otherwise …